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GRADU ATE COUNCIL MINUTES
April 24, 2017
The Graduate Council met on Monday, April 24, 2017 at 2:00PM in room 311 of the Byrnes Building.
Graduate Council members present: Dr. Matt Brown, Chair; Drs. Swann Adams, Drucilla Barker Bobby Brame, Jr., Matthew Childs, Dirk den Ouden, Maryah Fram, Sali Li, Douglas Pittman, David Tedeschi, Collin Webster, Kellee White, Scott White and; Mark VanDriel, GSA Representative.
Graduate Council members absent: Drs. Cathy Brant, Dirk den Ouden, Blaine Griffen, Caryn Outten, and Susan Yeargin.
Graduate School Representatives: Dr. Cheryl Addy, Dr. Murray Mitchell, and Wanda Barr
Provost Office Representative: Dr. Tena Crews
Guests: Dr. Bob Brookshire, Dr. Lucy Spence, and Andy Graves
NOTE: These minutes will become final on May 15, 2017 if not challenged.
1. Call to Order and Approval of Agenda (Matt Brown, Chair)
Dr. Matt Brown called the meeting to order at 2:01pm and received Council approval of the agenda.
2. Approval of the Minutes from March 27, 2017. The minutes were reviewed electronicallyand approved by the Council. Minutes are on file at The Graduate School websiteat: http://app.gradschool.sc.edu/gradcouncil/minutes.asp
3. Report of the Chair (Matt Brown)
Dr. Brown welcomed everyone to the meeting. No report at this time.
4. Report of the Dean of Graduate School (Cheryl Addy)
Dr. Addy expressed her thanks for those who supported the Graduate Student Appreciation Week earlierin the month and for contributions to Discover USC last Friday. As far as we can tell, everything wentvery well. We had 12 to 15 poster sessions with one winner from each of those sessions. There were 6heats of 3MTs (three minute thesis) presentations with one winner from each of those heats. Those sixwinners and the fan favorite presented at the Awards ceremony. The winner of the completion willrepresent UofSC at the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools in March 2018. The competition forces
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the students to think about their topic in terms of communicating with someone totally outside their field and make them understand. The seven students that made it to the finals all did an outstanding job.
Dr. Addy would love to see this grow and become a more typical practice that our students do both forthemselves and for use to market ourselves to prospective students. Showing a rotating set of thesepresentations to highlight ongoing research and the impact that it can have would be most desirable. Wewill see if some of these 3MT presentations can be made available.
We are at the end of the spring semester. The doctoral hooding is scheduled for Saturday, May 6th at1:00p.m. in the Koger Center. We are expecting around 110 graduates to participate in the ceremony. Dr. Janette Andrews from Nursing will be the Commencement speaker this time. Our masters students are eligible to participate in one of three masters ceremonies that will take place on Friday afternoon,Saturday morning, and Saturday afternoon. Traditionally, there is an emeritus faculty member whoparticipates with the Mace party. Dr. Addy was asked for a suggestion for the ay afternoonceremony. Dr. Miriam Johnson, recently retired from Social Work, still in the area, a committed memberof Graduate Council and Graduate Faculty has agreed to participate in the day afternoon ceremony with the Mace party.
Due to federal regulations related to FICA exemptions, we had to tighten up on the guidelines forgraduate assistantships for this summer. Except for students on Special Enrollment (Z Status), we are now requiring a three credit hour minimum enrollment in the summer in order for graduate students to hold an assistantship. Federal regulations clearly talk about the role of the student and the role of the employee. A graduate assistant should be a student first, and an employee second. The concern is that ifwe were allowing students only enrollment for one credit hour to work, (especially for extended hours), itwould be awfully hard to justify that their student role exceeded their employee role.
After going back and forth with HR and Payroll, we ended up going with the three credit hour enrollment which actually is the standard used by many universities. The problem is that by the time we made thedecision, too much time had passed and many departments had already begun to submit their GA hiresfor the summer. If the hires were submitted and processed early spring, we won’t go back to fix those. The students have to be enrolled in order to be hired as a student. You can still hire under-enrolled students or non-enrolled student through VIP as graduate student part time and pay them by the hour. Weare not trying to generate more tuition. If the students don’t need the credit hours, hire them as hourly paid graduate students so neither the students nor the programs are forced to pay tuition. Please see attached memo.
This year is year five of the current contract with AIG, the student health insurance provider for UofSC. Graduate student health insurance coverage was slated for a significant premium increase effective 2017-2018 school term. Most undergraduate students remain on their parents’ health insurance policy; sohealth insurance coverage for them was optional. The provider agreed to lower the premium costs ifUofSC would enforce a hard waiver for all undergraduate students to be covered as well. As a result ofthe hard waiver, the health insurance for graduate student insurance premiums will drop tremendously forthe upcoming school year. This fall, we will do a new RFP for a new five year contract—could possiblybe a new vendor.
At the Faculty Senate meeting, a set of proposed changes to the faculty manual were approved that would expand voting rights for non-tenure track faculty. These changes are not final yet because they next have to be approved by the General Faculty. If approved, the changes will need to be approved by the Board
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of Trustees and by Dr. Pastides who has already voiced his support. When we wrote the section on the Associate Graduate Faculty membership in general, it was in the context of the definition of university faculty. Once all of this is approved, we probably need to go back and revisit the entire section carefully to make sure that the language is consistent with the expanded definition of faculty.
In the Provost Blue Ribbon Panel last year, there were several comments and recommendations related to communication. These were on many levels such as communication with perspective and current students, how professional development opportunities and activities are made available, and how the Graduate School communicates with all of you. There is always room for improvement. Combined with this, we are working on how to upgrade the website, our major means of communication. Graduate School employees Wright Culpepper, Emily Rendek, and Holly Moore have been working on a plan to build out these communication strategies. A lot of what we want to do will require some interaction with the programs. Expect more information on this endeavor in the coming year.
Due to a busy work schedule and Dr. Miller’s travel, Dr. Addy hasn’t had an opportunity to sit down and discuss at great length the set of recommendations that the Academic Policy and Practices Committee developed. She has talked with him briefly regarding the MOUs and international programs. He is keeping her much more involved regarding international education to ensure that commitments are not being made without the Graduate School’s endorsement.
5. Report of the Secretary of the Graduate Council / Senior Associate Dean (Murray Mitchell)
Dr. Mitchell shared the following information regarding professional development—informationprovided by Dr. Heather Brandt:
3MT competition at Discover USC last week:
Preliminary Heat Winners• William Schroer, MS program, Geological Sciences (Heat A)• Gary Sellick, PhD program, History (Heat B)• Caroline Dunn, PhD program, Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior (Heat C)• Nujhat Choudhoury, PhD program, Chemical Engineering (Heat D)• Samuel King, PhD program, History (Heat E)• Rebecca Hirschhorn, PhD program, Exercise Science (Heat F)• Jordan Holmes, PhD program, Chemistry (Fan Favorite)Preliminary heat winners and fan favorite receive $150.
Overall Winner• Gary Sellick, PhD program, History – “Black Skin, Red Coats: The Carolina Corps & BritishEmancipation”Overall winner will represent the University of South Carolina in the 3MT competition as part of theCouncil of Southern Graduate Schools meeting in spring 2018.
Please get the word back to your students (Masters or Doctoral) that this 3MT does not have to be youractual thesis or dissertation. It can be another project based on the rules. Students who need anopportunity to gain some experience in presenting can take advantage of this opportunity. They don’thave to wait until they are about to graduate to participate in this competition. Early experience inpresenting their work to an audience is good. It takes some practice to limit oneself to speaking for threeminutes without notes and hitting upon all the salient points takes some practice.
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Graduate Civic Scholars Program, 2017-18:
Allison Marsh (history) is the director, and Lucy Annang-Ingram (health promotion, education, and behavior) is co-director. The new cohort includes 12 graduate students (5 masters, 7 doctoral) representing 12 departments. Letters of agreement are being reviewed and signed at this time. The summer intensive sessions begin on May 8. A formal announcement is forthcoming.
Bridge Humanities Corps, 2017-18:
Selections for the second cohort are underway and the review meeting is on May 3. We received 26 applications for eight spots in the program. We are working with Cynthia Davis in CAS on the selection process.
At the conclusion of the presentation of information on “Professional Development,” Dr. Mitchell noted that a response by the Graduate School to an external review to expand professional development efforts was to hire Dr. Brandt as an Associate Dean. Dr. Brandt has been active in elevating these efforts, and Dr. Mitchell requested permission of the Council to add a formal standing report by Dr. Brandt.
The council unanimously supported this request and directed the placement to occur on the agenda, immediately following the report by the secretary. Effective next month, May 2017, a report from Dr. Heather Brandt, Associate Dean for Professional Development, will officially directly follow Dr. Mitchell’s report on the Agenda template.
As a reminder, next month’s Graduate Council meeting will take place on Monday, May 15th at 11:30a.m. We will have a catered lunch and say bon voyage to our 6 departing faculty members along with our GSA student representative as they rotate off. We will reach out to you to confirm who will be at the meeting. Nominations are still being solicited to fill these faculty member spaces. He has received 2 nominations for full membership in the Council and a potential 3rd and 4th from Engineering and MassCommunications/Journalism. Dr. Matthew Childs is now eligible to serve a full 3 years as he is finishing out a single year. He has agreed to continue to serve. If you approach anyone to serve on the Council, please make sure that they are willing and able to serve, are not about to go on sabbatical, retire or otherwise leave the institution in the next three years, and do not have a class that would interfere in any way with attending the monthly meetings (fourth Monday at 2:00).
As a reminder, there is a deadline for proposal submission. Proposals need to be submitted by the first of the month in order to be considered for the given month. If the first falls on the weekend, the first Monday of the month is the deadline. Proposals that come in after this day will be reviewed on the next month’s agenda.
Report of the Graduate Student Association Representative (Mark VanDriel)
Mr. VanDriel reported that he will be defending in May, graduating in August, and walking in December.
The Graduate Student Association has elected new officers and the new Graduate Student Association
is Matthew Owens. Hopefully, he will attend the May meeting.
Report of the Academic Policy and Practices Committee (Dirk den Ouden)
No report at this time
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8. Report of the 500/600 Level Courses, Distributed Learning Courses and Special Courses (MurrayMitchell)
500/600 Level Courses
A listing of 500/600 Level Courses is presented to Council for informational purposes only.
None at this time
Distributed Learning Courses
None at this time
Special Topics Course Proposals
BADM 790 (3) Capstone HR Consulting Project (Fall 2017)CRJU 591 (3) Violence and Crime in the Lives of Girls and Women (Summer 2017)EDRM 878 (3) Principles and Applications of Educational Research (Summer 2017)EDUC 635 (3) Effectively Integrating Culturally Relevant Practice Early Childhood Math (Summer
2017)EMCH 561 (3) Introduction to Nuclear Safeguards (Summer 2017)ENHS 793 (3) Molecular Techniques in Toxicology (Fall 2017)ENHS 793 (3) Societal and Cultural Issues in Science and Technology (Summer 2017)EPID 794 (3) Epidemiology and Public Health Policy and Practice (Fall 2017)FAMS 710 (3) Research Methods for Applied Media Studies (Fall 2017)PEDU 555 (3) Beginning Ice Skating (Fall 2017): This class is a beginning introductory class which really should not be a 500 level class. There are issues surrounding the charge of additional fees that must be approved. This particular class has been approved for substantially larger fee that needs to be paid to the facility for the ice skating. Hopefully, this is the last time that we see a 500 level beginning activity class come through for them. We are working with them to develop a similar model Special Topics class at the undergraduate level.
Recently at an Assistant and Associate Deans for Graduate Education and Colleges meeting, the awareness of some of the rules and regulations that surround appropriate graduate education was discussed. There is a regulation that stipulates what appropriate progress is for graduate students regarding grades of incomplete. Based on feedback from the Assistant and Associate Deans, they were not aware of the rule. When graduate students have accumulated three grades of incomplete, they must be blocked from continued registration. The incompletes must be sorted out before they register for additional classes. This regulation is published but few people are aware of it. It is his plan to do a better job of getting those bits of information out. It would be most helpful if programs did a better job of monitoring their graduate students in their program. He has a printout of over 200 graduate students who have a GPA lower than a 3.0.
A major concern is that students are spending a lot of money for a degree that they are at risk of not completing if someone is not monitoring them. Council members are encouraged to request that program graduate directors, advisors and graduate faculty who are assigned advising responsibilities with graduate students to pay attention to those students for whom they are signing off and telling them to register for another 12 hours. In fairness, when spring advisement happens, fall grades are generally not
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yet available. It is entirely reasonable to understand why advisors might sign off on spring classes because they haven’t seen fall grades yet. At some point, they must prompt themselves to go back and have a look at how their students are doing. The risk is that the students will find themselves under a massive boulder of student debt and low GPAs. An incomplete will turn into a grade of “F” if it is not dealt with after one year if no back up grade is assigned. No graduate student has ever graduated from the UofSC with a graduate degree with less than a 3.0 GPA, and they never will. Being attentive to where students stand early on is most helpful. Earlier intervention will be most appreciated and that must happen at the program level.
9. Associate Graduate Faculty Nominations (Murray Mitchell)
None at this time
As a reminder, Associate Graduate Faculty status does provide some additional rights/privileges for faculty in your program who serve full-time. Clinical faculty who are cutting edge researchers themselves should be working with your masters and doctoral students. They are doing the work that your students would like to be a part of. Awarding Associate Graduate Faculty status allows them to chair those committees. If you have any faculty that would fit in that category, you are encouraged to have a look in the Forms Library for the nomination form for Associate Graduate Faculty status that spells out what the criteria are and that mechanism has been used by a number of programs to help spread the workload for supervising masters and doctoral students as chair of their committee and gets those students working with folk who do cutting edge work. It’s a win-win for everyone involved. Associate Graduate Faculty can also serve on Graduate Council and Graduate Council committees.
10. Fellowships and Scholarships Committee (Scott White)
Dr. Scott White reported that they are working out the trustee recruiting fellowship accepts/declines etc. In terms of the Presidential Fellows, they had 14 to accept, 22 to refuse, 24 denials, 10 withdrew before the committee reviewed their packet, and 1 pending (deferred admission offer for a year).
There was a lot of discussion about the increased number of prospective/current student who refuse fellowships and scholarships for unknown reasons as students are not obligated to reveal why they are refusing financial offers. Quite often it is because they get more lucrative offers from other colleges and universities. It may be time to revisit offer letters that go out from the Graduate School and from the college/units to make sure that they are consistent and not contradictory. The Graduate Council does not have the power to overrule—only to offer assistance. If the UofSC had unlimited resources, the majority of these problems would go away.
11. Report of Science, Math, and Related Professional Programs Committee (David Tedeschi)
Below is a list of proposals reviewed by the Committee. Each curricular action can be viewedat this Public Agenda review site: https://www.sc.edu/programproposal/gradagenda/?id=22
At this Public Agenda link, the individual proposals are not live-linked, but agenda items arelisted in alphabetical order. To view the full proposals, GC members and Committee Chairs stillneed to go to the Committee Review site, and filter for “Committees”, then for the “Committee”called “Added to Grad Council agenda.”
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HPEB 798B (1 - 3) Public Health Practicum Fieldwork, Public Health, CCP: Fall 2018
ITEC Major / Degree Program, Engineering and Computing, Change to Existing
Program: Fall 2018
These proposals were unanimously approved by Graduate Council.
12. Report of the Humanities, Social Sciences, Education, and Related Professional Programs
Committee (Drucilla Barker)
Below is a list of proposals reviewed by the Committee. Each curricular action can be viewed at this
Public Agenda review site: https://www.sc.edu/programproposal/gradagenda/?id=22
At this Public Agenda link, the individual proposals are not live-linked, but agenda items are listed inalphabetical order. To view the full proposals, GC members and Committee Chairs still need to go tothe Committee Review site, and filter for “Committees”, then for the “Committee” called “Added toGrad Council agenda.”
SOWK 702 (3) Writing for Professional Social Work Practice, Social Work, NCP: Fall
2017
EDRD 700 (3) Multimodal Multi-genre Writing, Education, NCP: Fall 2017
These proposals were unanimously approved by Graduate Council.
13. Report of the Grievances, Appeals and Petitions Committee (Maryah Fram)
None at this time
14. Other Committee Reports
None at this time
15. Old Business
None at this time
16. New Business
None at this time
17. Good of the Order
Dr. Matt Brown reminded the members of the Graduate Council and guests to please sign in on the Attendance roster for proper documentation.
Dr. Mitchell reminded the Graduate Council that the May meeting will be on Monday, May 15th at 11:30a.m. and lunch will be provided. Please mark your calendars and let us
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know if you will not be in attendance.
18.Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 3:02p.m.
Murray Mitchell, Secretary
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Harris Pastides, PresidentJoan Gabel, ProvostCheryl Addy, Vice Provost & Dean of the Graduate SchoolDeansDepartment ChairsGraduate DirectorsAaron Marterer, University RegistrarElaine Belesky, Office of the RegistrarAndrew Graves, Office of the Registrar
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su
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asp
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W
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coura
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GA
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ourl
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tion
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FAQ’s for Summer 2017 Graduate Student Hiring
Summer Enrollment before VIP hiring—Students must establish Summer enrollment/FICA status (enrolled: >3 credits vs not-enrolled: 0-2 credits) so department knows which hiring type to use.Enrollment (total credit hours) in Banner/Self Service Carolina must match hiring type at the time of hire and throughout the summer. Enrollment by term shows in VIP once a student ID has been entered. Note: Summer student type matches Spring Student type until Banner resets
Minimum Stipend for GAs—minimum across the summer (or any term) is $1200 based on 10 work-hours/week and prorated higher for more work-hours per week.
Hire with one VIP slot for summer hires under the 1617 Fiscal Year (as much as possible). Payroll can handle crossing the fiscal year change for Summer hires. This works if using the same account/fund code. Those needing to split a hire because of using new funding in July must wait and submit the later slot when Fiscal 1718 opens in VIP. Please notate on the early slot that a July hire is expected. The $1200 minimum for the Summer is in effect for GA positions.
Special Enrollment Status— Only students who qualify for Special Enrollment (Z-Status) and have submitted the Request for Special Enrollment Status (GS-ZS) to the Graduate School may be hired as Graduate Assistants with 1-2 credit hours. Hires for students who were approved for Special Enrollment in Spring 2017 will be approved for Summer GA hiring.
In-state tuition in Summer for Spring GAs—From ACAF 4.00: Non-South Carolina residents who are graduate assistants during the preceding Spring term will be charged in-state tuition rates for summer coursework. (Note: Non-residents are always billed non-resident tuition. Non-resident GAs receive a Graduate Assistant Exemption Credit.)
Access to Campus Services if not enrolled over the summer-- Enrolling in Fall classes keeps a student’s Carolina Card active through the summer. This will allow access privileges to campus services such as libraries, the Student Health Center and Strom Wellness Center. Both the Health Center and Strom have a different fee schedule for those not currently enrolled.